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Tag - Customary land

DP103 Papua New Guinea’s forests back in the spotlight

by Colin Filer
Oct, 2022
Port Moresby

Settlement evictions in Port Moresby between 2012 and 2021

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney
25 November 2021
A handicrafts stall run by women from Hog Harbour, Vanuatu, selling to cruiseship tourists prior to COVID (Dirk Steenbergen)

The agency of local people in the Pacific: indigenous responses to the global pandemic

by Apisalome Movono, Pita Neihapi, Regina Scheyvens and Dirk Steenbergen
25 November 2021

DP98 Whose right? Forceful evictions of informal settlements from state land in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney
Nov, 2021

DP86 Two steps forward, two steps back: the mobilisation of customary land in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Filer
Dec, 2019

The circularity of land reform in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Filer
16 December 2019

DP76 Methods in the madness: the ‘landowner problem’ in the PNG LNG project

by Colin Filer
Feb, 2019
Logging in New Guinea by Rimbunan Hijau (Esperenza A Greenpeace/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Identity fraud in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Filer
8 February 2018

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